Akamai scoops up Redswoosh, to maintain CDN lead
Akamai, the content delivery network company, has acquired San Francisco video data distribution company RedSwoosh for $15 million — as it seeks to maintain leadership in the important video delivery industry.
See statement here.
We wrote about Redswoosh last year. It offers a free peer-to-peer content distribution product similar to BitTorrent, and shares ad revenue with content owners. You download its software in order to share files, and its advantage is that it respects copyright — something… Continue Reading